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Tips from TheWriteTeam

Your posts today were excellent! I just had to pull one from each of you to share on our class blog. Here goes!

Alejandro - Hey! Would you like to transform your writing into a masterpiece? Do you want to have interesting facts and fascinating subjects. You need to have some tips from Alejandro. Tip number one, try to include vivid words. Vivid words are better  when they are adjectives and exclamations. An exclamation is a word that expresses feelings such as Wow!

Yessenia - Organize your writing so that it makes your writing seem nice and neat.

Shelby - Read your story over and over again until you KNOW it is the right one.

Paulina - A very good tip is to always use vivid words. Never leave an overused  word   in your paper. If you do, your paper will look very ordinary. If you change the words your paper will look great.

Patrick - When you write you  must write with understandable words. You must use words that you and the reader can understand. So don't just use words that sound good and you don't know what they mean use words that you know.

Maria - How,When,&Where shows ADVERBS! they uaually end in ly.

Marcos - grab the readers attention with a catchy lead. Here is an excellent introduction written by Alejandro.  Hey! would you like to transform your writing into a masterpiece?  A catchy lead can make readers read your writing.

Lacey - You should always try to do  your best in writing . Even if you don't know anything about it or the problem has never happened to you!You can make it up. As long as it sounds real to you and a classmate or who ever is reading it! Then you would be proud of yourself!   

Juan -  My last writing tip is to have your own personal voice. Express your personality and have a conversation with an authur and try not to make your story so  boring that no one will like to read it. When I mean your own personal voice I mean showing expression on your writing and honoring your punctuation meaning to slow down on your writing. Don't let anyone judge you about your writing and be proud of what you wrote about. 

Jhonathan -  One of the tips is to grab the attention. It helps so the reader will attach to it. Add a idiom or act like your  talking straight to them.This is one of the great tips.

Estefany - My comment is to reread what you wrote and omit what does not sound right and makes a person not into the story.

Ashley -  Pretend you are writing to a very important person.

Alejandra - Check your spelling!! Checking your spelling helps your writing a lot. I sometimes forget to check my spelling ,but I always try. It messes your writing if you forget.

Adrieana - Never write bad comment to someone who has write a bad comment to you. Or never respond to someone who wrote a bad comment to you. So remember all of these tips.

Six Traits of Writing Brainstorming

Wow! You did a wonderful job thinking about the different writing traits. I am so excited about your project. I think we are going to come up with something really good.

I was really pleased with your group work. Everyone cooperated and worked hard.  I thought I'd provide a review of your work here.

Ideas and Content

• What is my topic?
• Is my paper clear?
• Did I try to make my writing come alive?
• Do I have enough details?
• Do I have a good beginning, middle and end?
• Does my reader understand what I am trying to say?
• Have I included any dialogue?
• What about writing my ideas down and choosing the best one?
• Do I have an organization?
• Do I have enough ideas?

Organization

• How does my topic start?
• Are the details in order?
• Is my paper easy to read?
• Is my paper in time order?
• Does my writing have a good beginning?
• Are all the details in the correct sequence?
• Do my links go with my message?
• How does my topic end?

Voice

• Is this interesting to me?
• Did I give my opinion?
• Did I say everything I wanted to?
• What did I like the most?
• Did my readers feel like they heard my voice?
• Do I like what I wrote?
• Am I comfortable with what I wrote?
• Does the story match my attitude?
• How do I want my readers to feel?

Word Choice

• Did I use different or interesting words?
• Have I used any exciting words?
• Did you use vivid vocabulary?
• Does your writing flow?
• Will they make a good comment?
• Do you have descriptive words?
• Did I grab my readers attention with my words?
• Are my words in the right place?

Sentence Fluency

• Did I use a lot of sentences?
• Did I use complete sentences?
• Did I use correct sentences?
• Do my sentence beginnings have big and different ideas?
• Do my sentences make sense?
• Does my story sound real?
• Did I complete what I was trying to say?
• Did I use the same starting words?
• Does my paper sound smooth as I read it aloud?
• Did I use some long and some short sentences?

Conventions

• Do my words have spaces between them?
• Does my title go with my story?
• Does my punctuation show my sentence expressions?
• Do I have spelling errors?
• Do I have the correct capitalization in my sentences?
• Can people understand my writing?
• Does my paper have a main idea?
• Is my paper understandable?
• Did I use correct punctuation?

Think about this. We want the same tense throughout. We want it to flow. We want to see if we have more ideas. Consider ways we can shape it up into a useful and dynamic project. We'll talk next week about where we'll go from here. I have a good feeling about this. I wish Thursday were here already!  :-)

Writing Rocks!

Today was a lot of fun! Students created Wacky Web Tales and were cracking up! The practice with the different parts of speech was just what we needed.  Review the Parts of Speech help section, especially the verbs section.

Verbs

• A verb is a word that can show action. When a verb tells what people or things do it is called an action verb.
• A present tense verb shows action that is happening now.
• A past tense verb shows action that has already happened.
• A future tense verb shows action that will happen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Present Tense		Past Tense	Future Tense
Bats hunt at night.		The bats hunted last night.	The bats will hunt tonight.
The bats fly quickly.		The bats flew overhead.	The bats will fly later.

Then the tips about writing were very timely, like Tara's tip on the web site Tips for Young Writers.........

The best writers use an active writing voice as much as possible. So instead of saying: “She picked up the pencil,” say instead, “She grabbed the pencil.”

I saw some good tips on your posts today. Here are a few:

Paulina provides this excellent tip:
Another good tip is to always check your work. It is a good idea to use a dictionary while you are checking it. You may also change words to make it more exiting. You can look up words you're not sure about and it will help you write a good story. It will also help to read it aloud. That way you can hear how it sounds.

Alejandra notes this bit of advice:
You should reread EVERYTHING you write !!!!!!!  Why?   If you don't you might miss spell something. You should think about it.

Patrick follows with his good thoughts:

I also have a good tip. My tip is that when your"re writing you can't just write what your teacher would like. Instead put yourself into the story. You must be the words. You must understand the story. That's my tip and it's one of my favorites.

You were really producing some good work today and the pace has really picked up! I am amazed and so pleased with your efforts. Remember your homework is to come up with three good writing tips. We'll do some brainstorming next week about our project. I think we have some good beginnings. This journey is going to be cool! Writing is fun!

Here are a couple of writing tips I've been thinking about that I'd like to share.

• Keep the five senses in mind when you write. Make your descriptions come alive by including references to what you see, hear, touch, smell, and taste. A pepper can be red and can be very hot, but make your writing come alive by saying that a pepper is the color of a thousand little red sparks in a flaming fire and  can make your mouth feel like it will explode. This makes sense, right?
• Action words keep the reader hangin on! Words like scurried, tumbled, tossed, hurled, charged, howled. Get the picture? Better yet, are you getting your readers to make pictures in their heads? Action words help so keep your readers attention riveted on your writing by using them!

I am really excited about our up and coming project. Have a wonderful week!

Links about Writing

Today you are going to have some fun being writing explorers. Here are the assignments:

First, click on Wacky Web Tales. Everyone will pick a different topic. Now use creative adjectives, names of your friends, unusual but fascinating nouns, and things related to blogging and weblogs. When you finish we will copy the story and paste it into our blog and then laugh hilariously as we read each others "Wacky Web Tales."

OK, that warmed us up and got us ready to think some more about writing.  Go to "Tips for Young Writers"  It's a good site but you can come up with even better tips. Blog about one, then add a well-written and very thoughful yet relevant tip of your own.  Think about introductions, closings, details, your voice, descriptive words, sentences that grab you and make you want to keep reading, good vocabulary, word choice, punctuation, good grammar, sentences and thoughts that flow well, expressions, action words, proofing and anything else you can think of that relates to writing and blogging. Hey, it's OK if you throw in a little "Blooms" writing also.  You can do it!

Then we are going to brainstorm about the special project I talked about last week. It's going to be a great day in Georgia at J. H. House Elementary School!